Improvement in tag-fastenings



T. P. MARSTON.

Tag-Fatenings.

No. 131,174. Patented Sep.10, 1872.

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THOMAS P. MARSTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO JOHN S. LOUGHERY, OFSAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN TAG-FASTENINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,174, datedSeptember 10, 1872.

Specification describing a certain Improvement Relating to Tag-Fastenings, invented by THOMAS P. MARSTON, of New York city, in the State of NewYork.

The invention relates to the mode of clasping or locking the metallichooks.

The following is a description of what I consider the best means ofcarrying out the invention.

The accompanying drawing forms a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a view of the metal after it has been cut out and before itis bent in its mid- -dle length. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section afterit is bent, and Fig. 3 is a corresponding section after it is engagedwith a piece of cloth.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures.

I take a sheet of metal, which may be common tin of proper thickness,and cut it by dies and bend it into the form represented. I designatethe main body by M. The triangular portion, bent up as indicated by A,is the engageswith the cloth and perforates it when the fastening isfinally put in use. Near the opposite end of the strip of metal M I cut,by the same or a separate operation, and slightly bend out of the plane,another portion of metal which is marked B. The hole produced by thisoperation is marked B. Near the middle length of this strip of metal Ipunch a hole, 0, and on the adjacent edges I produce small notchesmarked 0 G On bending the strip of metal by hand or machinery the bendis formed where the metal is thus weakened. The tagnot re presented maybe attached to this fastening by means of a string wound around and.resting in the notches 0 0 or by a string simply passed through the hole0 and knotted.

The bent strip M with the tag attached is applied upon the edge of thecloth or other material 1), and pressed strongly together with the thumband finger. The hook A perforates the cloth, and, striking the innerside of the shield B, is deflected or bent so as to protrude through thehole B in a position nearly parallel to the plane of the metal M. Itextends through the hole B produced by the cutting out of the part B,and laps upon the main body of the metal so asto take a firm holdthereof. The tag is now secured not only'by the penetration of the clothby the hook A, and the clinching of the point of the hook after it haspassed through the cloth, but also by the fact that the clinch takeshold of the opposite metal as well as of the cloth, and holds the twoparts of the metal plate M firmly together. The metal partially removedin cutting the part B serves as a shield to clinch the hook A, asdescribed.

I claim as my invention The shield-piece B slightly displaced or bentout of the plane of the adjacent metal M, and arranged to serve,relatively to the hook A on the opposite end of the fastening, as andfor the purpose herein specified.

I11 testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this 24th day ofJuly, 1872, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

T. P. MARSTON.

Witnesses:

WM. 0. DEY, ARNOLD HoRMANN.

